The tale of a rogue who conned his way to the top and back again… returning to cinemas this summer to celebrate its landmark 50th anniversary! With the ravishing new 4K restoration debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and closing out the Cannes Classics strand, Stanley Kubrick‘s Academy Award®-winning historical epic BARRY LYNDON is more breathtaking … Read more
“TAKSI BLUZ” is a romantic comedy. At the same time it is a charming and exciting “road movie”. The main character of this story is Marko (42), a sympathetic failed dramaturg who has been working for years as a taxi driver and whose adventures we will follow during a hurried night. A seemingly normal day … Read more
Filmmaker Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, FX’s “Better Things”) captivates in a star-making turn as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively … Read more
From the brilliant mind of Charlie Kaufman (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, ADAPTATION) comes ANOMALISA, a very human, stop-motion masterpiece unlike any other you’ll see this year. This very human, introspective romantic drama about a lonely inspirational speaker (David Thewlis) who becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) … Read more
“Most of us… Need the eggs.” Widely regarded as one of – if not the – best romantic comedies of all time, Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL broke rules and new ground when it was released in 1976, and has since become archetypical in its influence. Often replicated but never duplicated, ANNIE HALL is a cinematic … Read more
Visionary director Leos Carax (HOLY MOTORS) makes his English-language debut with the resplendent, quirky musical ANNETTE. Featuring an original story and music by Ron & Russell Mael of the band Sparks, ANNETTE follows a journey of love, passion, and fame. Los Angeles, today. Henry (Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of … Read more
Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei, a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia, as … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, June 12 for a very special night featuring filmmaking icon Lloyd Kaufman live and in-conversation alongside screenings of both THE TOXIC AVENGER and TROMEO AND JULIET.Kaufman is perhaps best known as the co-founder of legendary studio Troma Entertainment, a true champion of independent cinema, and is himself … Read more
“Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony… It’s a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her.” We’re toasting French cinema with one of our all-time favourites, a film that is equal parts romantic and magical, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s … Read more
One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbor Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they … Read more
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